Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 741
Five days later, Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan set off separately, one land and one sea.

Needless to say, Mo Yulin sent troops normally. He had nearly [-] troops in his hand, which was almost equivalent to all the troops that Zheng Song brought to Nghe An. With the main force eyeing the capital of Nghe An, there should be no pressure.

Ruan Juan has something to say about his journey.This time the East Route Army is going by sea, so Ruan Juan is undoubtedly the main general, but since Ruan Juan himself is the general of the Mo Dynasty, and the commander of the Jinghua Fleet is Ding Gaojing, a highly pragmatic confidant, so when he was at sea, he This command is in doubt.

Of course, Ruan Juan himself knew this very well. Since boarding the ship, he treated himself as just a passenger and never expressed any opinions on the voyage.In fact, he had attacked Ngean and Hue by sea several times, and he was a double fighter who knew the navy. However, he was very interested in Jinghua's armed transport ships. Although he didn't want to ask too many questions, he had been observing carefully.

In his opinion, this batch of Jinghua ships has a feeling of combining Hua and Yi, especially the sails, which are most obvious.Jinghua’s sails are also typical Chinese hard sails. The shape and style of the sails are also typical Chinese four-corner sails, but a triangular sail is added to the bow. In addition, the sail winches used on these ships are unprecedented on other Ming ships. Seeing it, it has a strong meaning of "Hong Mao Fan".

These gadgets are all products made according to the guiding theory of Gao Yushi. They were not mass-produced at the beginning, because Gao Yushi was not sure whether such a combination of Chinese and Western was easy to use. It's all worth it.

Later, it was discovered that it was still feasible to apply some western navigation techniques on the basis of Chinese-style ship shapes and sails, and this was gradually popularized.

The basic structure of Chinese style sails is similar whether it is the comb-rod hard sail in the south or the close-rod hard sail in the north. Maybe the sail is the fundamental difference between the Chinese style and the Western style.The advantage of the Chinese style sail is that due to the effective support of several crossbars, the load per unit area of ​​the sail is smaller. Repair, and the requirements for the material of the sail are not high.

Moreover, the hard sail can better maintain its shape no matter what the wind conditions, with less loss of efficiency, and it will not be "popped" by the wind.

As for later generations, people think that the biggest disadvantage of Chinese hard sails is that the structure is too heavy. efficiency.

However, Gao Wuzhen is still a little dissatisfied now, because he learned from the maritime merchants in the private port of Guangzhou that the warships of the Folang Jiren have the same "tonnage" as the warships of Jinghua—such as the Jinghua armed transport ship and the same ship. Compared with the tonnage of the Galen ship, the gun load of the Frang robot is higher than that of the armed transport ship. The Galen ship has eight more guns, and the left and right sides have four more guns.

That is to say, under the same tonnage, Jinghua's ship has fourteen guns on one side, while the Frang machine has eighteen guns.

This is definitely a disadvantage!
However, it still depends on the guiding ideas of the naval operations of both sides: Jinghua's side runs faster, controls more accurately, and can adapt to various winds, but its firepower is weaker; But firepower prevails.

As for the structure of the ship, who is more resistant to beating, Gao Wushi doesn't know now, and he has to wait for the two captured large Galen to be thoroughly studied by Jinghua's shipwrights before he can make a judgment.

Although Gao Yushi is still dissatisfied with the current situation, he can barely accept it.The main reason is that he feels that the stronger artillery firepower of the Francobots will not change a key factor: the total amount of naval forces that Westerners can invest in East Asia is very limited, but he is highly pragmatic but can concentrate all his strength!

It doesn’t matter if your unit’s projectile volume is a little higher than mine, I can crush you with the quantity—isn’t that how Zheng Zhilong dominated the trade in the South China Sea back then?I have a lot of people on the boat, and I can overwhelm you by going around and fighting with some losses. This is also a kind of strength.

Of course, generally speaking, Gao Pragmatism does not admire the outdated tactics of team-jumping. The Spaniard will soon suffer from this. How can he be so pragmatic?

Before the emergence of aircraft carriers, the general development idea of ​​​​the navy was very clear, just four words: giant ships and cannons!

Whoever has the biggest ship will have the upper hand; whoever has the most powerful guns will win!
In order to understand certain two games, Gao Wushi read a lot of books about the Age of Sail and Warships. After refining the views in those books, he actually said these four words!

For example, the Spaniard's Armada was deflated. The storm was certainly one aspect, but the main problem was the guns. England was taking the long-range heavy artillery route at that time, relying on the advantages of mobility and artillery range to "fly a kite" ", the Spaniard has always wanted to rely on the past to fight for help - the Spanish army is at its final highlight moment, and it can completely beat England, but the English will not let him approach, so he has no choice but to be beaten passively , No one can stand this change.

Ruan Juan read it and pondered it in his heart.Gao Jing saw it from the side, but didn't say anything.

Gao Jing is not worried about Ruan Juan stealing his teacher or something, because he is from a sea family and knows the difference between sea and land. You can rebel on land, as long as there are enough people, you will have the opportunity to "kill more ants and kill elephants." .But the sea is different. Although people are important, you must first have a boat, and the boat is the foundation of everything.

And to have a boat, you must first have money!
The cost of each of the armed transport ships under their feet is as high as [-] silver (including crew, armaments, etc.), how much is [-] armed transport ships?
330 taels!

Ten years ago, this was the total income of the Ming treasury for one year!
So what if you Annan learned this stuff?Can you build such a fleet?
Not to mention that my master is still asking people in the shipyard to design bigger and stronger professional warships. I heard that one of those ships costs 12 taels...

One million taels!
It is estimated that even if the master is as rich as the master, the ship may not be able to build many ships. After all, it is still a ship that can only fight, and it cannot transport goods in normal times—in other words, it is a loser unless it goes out to become a pirate. Otherwise, there is no ability to make money at all.

Ruan Juan observed earnestly for a whole day, and thought for a long time, and then his expression gradually became ugly, and he couldn't help but ask Gao Jing how much the boat cost.

Gao Jing laughed and said, "I heard it's close to 6 taels."

Ruan Juan was dumbfounded for a while, then turned around and left without looking back.
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(End of this chapter)